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It's not about admitting it's a bad contract. Everyone but Ericsson's mom knows that's too much for him. (Although it's looking less bad when you have Petry getting 5.5 and other such deals) It's the fact that if we bought him now, it would be 1.375 against the cap for the next 8 years. On top of the 1.067 from Weiss that's around for 5 more years. Can't just keep buying out people and handicapping the team. Plus who are we making room for? Many would argue that Sproul, Jensen, Ouellet would be better options, but enough to justify the cap? Ericsson has a modified NTC so he could be tradeable or keep him on the lower pairs where can handle the competition better.

I think his Axe to grind is stemming from the Drew Miller signing and letting Emdog leave.

You must be a man or postmenopausal because you are... ...missing some periods Yeeeaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!! 😎

No lol.

No.

I just hope the expansion draft becomes our saviour..

I really don't think Holland has an ego problem it's more he wants to be able to trade him. Kind of like the Weiss situation. I think he'll try and do everything he can this year and then next offseason he'll be bought out

I want to get rid of Ericsson as much as you guys, but it just makes way more sense to keep him rather than buy him out. It's cheaper that way. They just have to be brave enough to scratch him regardless of his contract.

Jordin Tootoo signs a one-year deal with the Blackhawks for $750,000 http://nhl.nbcsports.com/2016/07/05/hawks-sign-jordin-tootoo-one-year-750000/?utm_network=twitter&utm_post=5990067&utm_source=TW%20%40NHLonNBCSports&utm_tags=srm%5Bhockey%5D

Don't be mad brah Holland forgives you

It's damn good to be a Wings fan! Just look at some of the names in this thread, wow.

is there such thing as a Holland apologist? I mean there are a lot of sky's falling gloomers...but I think most of us are critical of him and few are constructive about it.

True as far as even strength lines, but with the depth of the whole team, was the top pair facing Fedorov or Yzerman? Also, the Russian 5 was deployed as a five man unit as opposed to a line of forwards and a defensive pairing, which was rather unique. What about the power play groupings? I'd love to see an analytical overview because it is such an interesting comparison of two truly great players. My favorite Fedorov memory - I was at the Nassau Coliseum the game after Sergei scored five in one game. I was with some folks I'd met on the old Red Wings listserv Dave Vergolini ran out of MSU in the 90's. One of the guys was a Russian speaker and made a small sign in Russian that said "Sergei, five more please?" His girlfriend held it up was he was coming into the face off circle. He looks over, sees the sign, smiles and winks, then scores on that shift.

Sawchuk held a ton of records until Broduer and Roy came around, easily the best goalie to ever play in Detroit.

This is getting to Bill like for me to continue debating. I will just say this, when I said that I dont like it when people are blind by legend, I was referring to instances when people say things like "Datsyuk is nowhere near the player Abel was". When you are talking Gordie Howe, and you call is 6 hart trophies and utter domination of an era "stupid s***" and "trivial garbage" either you are trolling, or just not intelligent enough to understand.

When he gets injured and misses half the season, I'm blaming you.

I just thought I'd bump this classic post up today in honor of the fact that we no longer have any of the Juck ******* pott players any more....no cleary, Quincey or Babcock.

Lol we get a 40-50 point player for $2.6 million and still you have some people who aren't happy

I agree. I really like this kid. I get the same feeling with him when we got DD. Just feels right.

I guess Prince and Bowie will be performing

2009-2012 Abby played center on and off. He was a pretty damn good faceoff guy (around 53%). Much better than Sheahan is. Filpula became Zetterberg's linemate on second line sometime between 2010-2012, but primarily in the 2011/12 seasons. I don't think Abby would be a good top 6 centerman. Being is top 6 centerman is nothing like being a bottom 6 centerman. My first choice for centering 3rd line would be Darren Helm followed by Abby. But neither will happen. Ideally next season I'd like to see Larkin/AA get some 1st and 2nd line centering duties. I think Zetterberg is much more useful on the Wing if he's to stay top 6. And I think Abby would be a good winger up there as well. If Z stays first line center then hopefully Larkin gets 2C and AA gets 3C (he could share 3C duties with Sheahan).

Iphone, Ipods, Ipads, Itoilets, Ishoes suck. Wife buys Ipad. Of course she does. But then she is a Devils fan. Can't help some people.

Chocolate ice cream is terrible.

I'm 23-years-old... I'd rather play a board game then get hammered. I haven't had more than one drink in a day since the day I turned 21. I think driving tipsy is the same as driving drunk and I have no problem calling the police on you. It's not snitching, it's potentially saving a life from your selfish a**.